Iraqi photographer shot dead in Iraq

An Iraqi press photographer working for a European agency was shot dead outside his home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the second Iraqi journalist to be murdered in Iraq in the past week, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Saturday.

Karam Hussein, who worked for the European Press Agency (EPA), was approached by four masked men who shot him and then fled, RSF said.

Mr Hussein has been with EPA for just three months and previously worked for the US press agency Associated Press.

On Thursday a female journalist with the Kurdish television company Al-Hurriya, Dina Mohammed Hassan, was killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Their deaths bring the total number of journalists and other media workers killed in Iraq since the beginning of the US-led invasion to 44, according to Paris-based RSF.